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14 NEW SWlil)l:N I IN1 ) I,l( I( IhIN( ; NEW SWEDEN UNDER RISING I5 suaded most of the colonists III~ILICIIII): t 1 \ I~ I I I ~ (;~~lwl~ter to settle at New Amsterdam. Hencll-ick VOII I,l\\vlc I\ W;I\ ullable to move Stuyvesant to release the ship or (OIII(. 11, \.III\~ ;I( 101.y tcrms about the cargo. After long effort 11c ~;IIII~. tlow~~ to Ncw Sweden over- land with Lieutenant Sven tliiiik, :I S(*IV;IIII, ;I secretary, and a soldier, and began his work for tl~c tolol~y. Allllough Rising wrote to Sweden at the time, that the loss 01 IIIC Il'rj was a "special injury," "a blow not easily repaired," ;111tl ill Ill:, llcxt report em- phasized the "weak condition" of t11c colol~y a11d the need of immediate relief, his resources in Inel1 ;IIIO IIIC~IIS ellabled him to go ahead with the development of tllc colol~y 111roi1gh the fall and inter.^ By spring 1655, however, when aid fro111 Ilomc was still lacking, supplies were very short. Rising was able to buy at high prices from English and Dutch merchants who came to the river, butter, meats, bread, wheat, clothing and ;I few other items. On June 14, he wrote that the colony was "in fairly good condition," but that provisions, cloth and other supplies wcre sorely needed. Without assistance from Sweden and new supplies to cheer the people, many would desert. Some already had." The Hollanders who took the oath, he reported, had gone off to Manhattan two or three weeks ago. Although affairs were less serious than in Governor Printz's last year, the colonists were now used to better conditions. Short rations and worn-out clothing were no help to the morale of soldiers and servants, nor to the freemen who were better off and some of them prosperous. The amount of goods that could be bought from the Dutch and English merchants was so far short of the need that in August Elswick wrote saying linen was so scarce that some of the soldiers were going without shirts.'O At the end of that same month, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in the Delaware with his large force of ships and men and on September 14/24, 1655, New Sweden was in the possession of the Dutch. Rising had been forewarned by Indians that Stuyvesant was preparing an expedition to the Delaware. It was clear to him 8 Ibid., 525-26. 9 Myers, Nurraf~c~es, 163-64; Johnson, 11, 530-31. 10 Ibid., 533. The company provided maintenance for officers, soldiers. and servants in addition to their salaries and wages, which were held back. Against this reserve they could buy additional food and supplies. Freemen to give them a start--were aided with maintenance, farm equipment and stock on easy terms for rcpaymcnt to the company,-ibid., 11, 505-07. that the Dutch director would retrieve Fort Casimir if he could, so Rising prepared to defend it, had the fort strengthened, and sent his best men and soldiers there with a large supply of am- munition. That Stuyvesant meant to take the whole river from the Swedes, Rising could not believe. Only when the Dutch seemed to be winning at Fort Casimir did be sense the full danger." With thirty-five colonists, mostly officers and soldiers, and several of their wives, Rising went aboard the Dutch warship De Waegh, October 1/11, on the first lap of his return to Sweden. In the party were the two clergymen, Hjort and Nertunius.I2 Domine Laurentius Carolus Lokenius can be imagined standing on the shore before Fort Christina, his hand raised in blessing for safe journey, once more the lone Lutheran pastor on the river. Fortunately, Governor Rising had spared no effort in report- ing to Sweden and recording in his diary and journals, the events, affairs and conditions on the Delaware. And supplementing Rising's Relution~ and ]ourizul~ is the work of his fortification engineer. Peter Lindestrom, who wrote the first geography of the Delaware River Valley and illustrated it with maps and charts.I3 Lindestrom with the help of the Dutch surveyor Andries Hudde, and the support of Rising charted the river and shores of the Delaware Valley. The result was a "Map of New Sweden or the Swede's River" published in his Geogr.uphiu Anzericue as Map A, together with his Map R more intimately valuable as picturing New Sweden at the end of Swedish control. The latter is reproduced as the frontispiece of this <strong>Crane</strong> <strong>Hook</strong> study.'" On Map B the symbols for dwellings and other buildings, evidently include those of families on company land as well as freemen on their individual plantations at sites known to have been occupied in Printz's time. Added by Lindestriim is the fort community Trefaldighet (Casimir), with its houses on the Strand; also Rising's new cultivated lands and his placing of colonists, June 1654 to September 1655. It will be noticed that the <strong>Crane</strong> 11 Ibid., 596 ff. I.? Ibid., 614.15. 724. I3 Ibid., 553-57. I4 Antlrit-s Huclclc the .~hlc.st Dutch representative on the Delaware. first .II I'ort N.1ss.111 :IS ~l11c.l tivili:rn o6icc.r and then ;I.; secretary and surveyor at Fort ( I I I -I'(I ~ II1\ur(, IIIIII ;I \.II.IIV Stuyvc\:~nt pve hirn permission to serve as survr,yclr fit1 t l ~ r . Sn,t.~l~ \ I),,i JIVI~.~II. X 11. 25 ff . 8); Mycrs. Ndrr~~lir~er, 13Rn.; John- \llll, 11, llppl~\lt
I look I(.!:II)II I\ ~.11l1 \ \ . I I ~ I ~ ~ 11111111 I I I 0119 111.61 IIIIIIII of it on the \ O I I I I I Ii;111k 01 1111. ( 111 I,,IIII,I I( 11 I I I I I ~ I ~ ~ I ~ I I I 111,. 11111 :Ire symbols III'I.III('II clear about or1 111~. "~1~1o1.111~l." \\ 111 1 1 I ( I ~ ~ I I I ~ 11~111 * , 1 4 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 50 ;I(IC\ ~III,~ ~ O \ V 11 \\ 1111 \\ 11, ,II ,,I\ III,~, t11r.111 1111,. 111ircI of the c.~ro~) for. tI1c.11 I.II)III . \ I I I I ~ ~ I 1111111 1111 'r111l \\111l 1,111(1 111 (lrane <strong>Hook</strong> are Iior~~c.h~c.;~(l\ .11 51 1.111~1 \\ 1111 ( '11 1 I 11101 1 IIIO~\) 011 land first CIIOSC~ I)y I I the COIIIIS(:II(.II ~ ~ I . I I I I , I11 I Ill*, I 11 \,(.I ,II I 11 freemen, including that oi AI(,ia~~~~l~,~ ,\,I I , \\ I I I ~ \\ 01,. 111 l~ohsc~ssion of 111s plantation there IIIIIII(.,~I.II~.~\. ,111t.1 1111 1 )IIIIII 1001\ control again in 1655." No name is ~IVCII ,111 1111-. I I I S I I ~ 1111 I I I ~ . \OIII~I lx~rlk of the Christina opposite t11(. lor I, l 1111 11 I$, I ,I l lr,tl "'I c.l~lr;~koncks-landet" on the Lindestron~ 111a/) 0 1 SI~I~VI~~.~IIII'~~ \r
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